Press Releases

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College Park, MD—Known for its rich and unexpected musical collaborations, the Kronos Quartet will join in concert with famed Malian vocalist Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté and instrumentalists Fodé Lassana Diabaté and Mamadou Kouyaté, in Trio Da Kali's first visit to the United States, on February 22 at 8pm at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center’s Dekelboum Concert Hall.

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College Park, MD— Known for his ability to weave movement and storytelling into potent dance theatre performances, David Roussève/REALITY presents the world premiere of Stardust at the Kay Theatre at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, January 31 and February 1 at 8pm. The artists will participate in a Talk Back following the Friday, January 31 performance.

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College Park, MD—The University of Maryland (UMD) School of Music’s Concert Choir will join the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in three performances of Benjamin Britten’s profound and deeply affecting anti-war masterpiece, The War Requiem on Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 8 pm and Friday, November 15, 2013 at 8 pm in the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall and Saturday, November 16, 2013 at 8 pm at the Music Center at Strathmore.

The performances celebrate the 100^th anniversary of the composer’s birth on November 22, 1913.  The combined force of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra plus two choirs and three soloists will deliver Britten’s powerful masterwork that lends humanity to anti-war sentiment and remembers the fallen. “We are honored to be part of a performance so meaningful and moving,” said Edward Maclary, director of Choral Activities at UMD. “It is a privilege to share the stage with the BSO for the centerpiece of their 2013-2014 season.”

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College Park, MD— The National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts (NACTA) will join the University of Maryland’s (UMD) School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) for a three-week collaboration beginning October 28th that focuses on sharing each culture’s unique approach to theatrical production and theatre technology.  Two junior professors and one graduate student from NACTA will spend three weeks in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center on the UMD campus working side-by-side with TDPS faculty, students and production staff. The visit is part of a five-year NACTA-TDPS partnership that began in 2012 with the bi-lingual co-production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, performed in both College Park, MD and Beijing, China.

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College Park, MD— Choreographer David Dorfman explores the vulnerability, virtuosity and mortality of daily life in Come, and Back Again at the Kay Theatre at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center November 1 and 2 at 8 pm.  Inspired by the stimulating poetry and unapologetic, raw ferocity of the underground 90’s Atlanta band “Smoke,” five dancers and a band of musicians create a kinetic anthem of reckless personal abandon. Dorfman plays the role of both dancer and saxophonist in this striking work that contemplates how time and memory influence and define our changeable human existence.

Join the artists for a Talk Back following the Friday, November 1 performance.

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College Park, MD – The  University of Maryland School of Music brings musician-poet, Sidney Clopton Lanier to life in a presentation that honors his creative legacy and artistic contribution to his adopted home, Baltimore, during the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era.  Entitled Orpheus’ Son - The Life of Sidney Lanier and His Music of Language, the program tells Lanier’s poignant life story, interwoven with passages of period flute music, some composed by Lanier, and narrative readings of Lanier’s poetic musical expression.

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College Park, MD – The University of Maryland School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) announced it will partner with the theatre departments of the Big Ten Conference schools to create a new playwriting and performance initiative. The group, known as the Big Ten Theatre Chairs plans to commission, produce and publicize as many as five new plays in an effort to influence the national dialogue about women playwrights and the sorts of scripts needed by university theatre programs for performing arts education.

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College Park, MD— Anda Union brings the old and forgotten music of Mongol to the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center on September 20 at 8pm with The Wind Horse. The group, who describes themselves as music gatherers, digs deep into Mongol traditions and holds on to the essence of Mongol music while creating a haunting, fresh sound.

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CONTACT: Erica Bondarev
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COLLEGE PARK, MD – The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland has named Martin Wollesen as executive director.  Wollesen, a longtime arts administrator and proven creative thinker, has an all-inclusive approach to the arts and a demonstrated commitment to higher education. 

In his new role, Wollesen will provide innovative and strategic leadership for the Center’s programmatic, educational and community activities, with collaboration as a core operating tenet.